OT: hey how come no one has mentioned it here...?

[John Esak]

Well, I won't be supporting filePro directly after I die... But up until
then, yes.  After that, I'm making plans to dump my synaptic core down to a
*very* large hard drive so that when Max Headroom becomes a reality it can
be overlaid onto some memory space and filePro will be supported yet again.
See there's always a future for our beloved product. :-)

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> m] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 2:13 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: OT: hey how come no one has mentioned it here...?
> 
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010, John Esak wrote:
> >
> >Jim mentioned to me that SCO is/was up for sale last week.  
> It's funny, but
> >it seems just like the situation filePro is in. A product 
> loved and sworn to
> >by a small community of people... But one that has some 
> limitations which
> >will keep it from ever moving forward as is.  I wonder who 
> will buy SCO and
> >the built in user-base?  Or filePro for that matter. I'm 
> sure Bud would sell
> >for the right price.
> 
> The big question is, what does SCO have to sell after the courts
> have affirmed that Novell didn't sell them the Unix copyrights?
> 
> Whatever happened to Tarantella, a very interesting product that
> was developed by SCO, and that did not go in the sale to Caldera?
> 
> At one time, most of our business was with SCO, first Xenix, then
> Unix, but at this point this has dwindled to almost nothing as
> the SCO clients have moved to Linux inside.  We still have a
> number of clients running FilePro, and my big concern is who will
> support them as the FilePro knowledgeable support retires?
> 
> Bill
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